{"id":163021,"date":"2026-04-11T05:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T05:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/163021\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T05:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T05:17:08","slug":"charges-filed-in-deadly-wrong-way-pennsylvania-turnpike-crash-suspect-still-at-large","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/163021\/","title":{"rendered":"Charges filed in deadly wrong\u2011way Pennsylvania Turnpike crash; suspect still at large"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">WASHINGTON TWP., Pa. (WPVI) &#8212; The Lehigh County District Attorney&#8217;s Office announced charges Friday in connection with a deadly <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/bucks-county-man-motorcycle-killed-wrong-driver-pennsylvania-turnpike-washington-township-lehigh\/16111262\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wrong-way crash on the Pennsylvania Turnpike<\/a> last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Onanyeli Rosario-Mesa, 26, of Allentown, is charged with homicide by vehicle while driving under the influence, along with several related offenses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">An arrest warrant has been issued, but authorities say Rosario-Mesa remains at large.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">READ MORE | <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/bucks-county-man-motorcycle-killed-wrong-driver-pennsylvania-turnpike-washington-township-lehigh\/16111262\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Video captures wrong-way driver before fatal crash on PA Turnpike<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Man on motorcycle killed by wrong-way driver on PA Turnpike<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Prosecutors say Rosario-Mesa was driving the wrong way on I-476 northbound on March 30 when she struck several motorcyclists in Washington Township.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">One of the riders, identified as 50-year-old John Sweeney Jr. of Bristol, was pronounced dead at the scene. Sweeney was part of a small group of motorcyclists traveling on the Turnpike at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Investigators say video showed Rosario-Mesa&#8217;s vehicle traveling southbound in the northbound lanes, passing several vehicles that pulled over to avoid a collision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;She blew by me. It&#8217;s not like she was doing 30. She was doing 70, 80, 90 miles an hour. I was doing 65,&#8221; a driver told Action News last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Anyone with information about Rosario-Mesa&#8217;s whereabouts is asked to contact Pennsylvania State Police or the Lehigh County District Attorney&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON TWP., Pa. (WPVI) &#8212; The Lehigh County District Attorney&#8217;s Office announced charges Friday in connection with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[73661,119,121,120],"class_list":["post-163021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-73661","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}